Fábri Zoltán - Best to worst

In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.

The Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy endues when the Tót's go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.

On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.

When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians.

In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. The film poignantly portrays the struggles and resilience of youth amid the harsh realities of war.

A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before.

The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing "beast" of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager's wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago.

Young maid Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hardworking servant but doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but leaves her as soon as she gets pregnant. The humiliations of Anna finally lead to a tragic ending.

A wheelchaired apothecary is summoned to the police station for "a particular matter". The old man is convinced that his sin is revealed, which he had committed during the war. His friends insist that they only wanted to joke with him but his conscience can no longer be silenced.

A murder is revealed during the private investigation of a journalist. Prestigious economic and political people of a small town gather for a name-day celebration in a luxury villa. Everything starts as usual, but this time an incident disrupts the stag party. Andrea Bíró, accompanied by a friend, announces to her father, the director of the Ironworks, that she is leaving home. Bíró, enraged, shoots the boy with a hunting rifle. Those present claim it was an accident. Despite obstacles and death threats, Luca Péteri, a journalist for the local newspaper, starts investigating the case.

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Zoltán Fábri traces in epic style and more conventional form the fate of the peasants in the period between the wars.

Géza Baradla spent 25 years in prison for war crimes. After his release, he returns to the scene of the crime with his former accomplice, Simon Obrád, in the village where the murders happened. Old, buried, painful wounds are torn open. Fears and emotions are unleashed, which sooner or later lead to tragedy.

Many Hungarian migrant workers work in Germany in good conditions and for good wages during WW2. They face the war only once they return home to Hungary.

A woman finds out that one of her doctor husband's patients used to be the cellmate of her first husband, who died in prison years before.

In the coal mine of the fictitious village called Sajókút, the tunnel collapses on the people there due to a botched explosion. Those trapped try to fight for survival, while those left on the surface try with all their might to save them.